BSL Glossary

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Wirral Met College

• BSL Glossary

• Cate Cassidy

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Involving Learners in Creating their own Support
Resources

• BSL Glossary

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The Learner

• Kirsty
• 22 years old
• Profoundly Deaf British Sign Language user
• Pre access humanities psychology, sociology,
  English
• Would like to become social worker for Deaf
  children

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What we Did and How

• Glossary from curriculum
• Translation
• Agreed signs
• Filmed learner using Disgo video camera
• Videos downloaded
• Uploaded to pen drive

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What Worked?

• Kirsty was very keen
• Opportunity to explore terms in BSL
• Disgo easy to use
• Portable
• Upload easy
• Easily accessible pen drive

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Difficulties

• Adding captions
• Agreeing signs
• Name word list
• Battery time
• Translation
• Translation time

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Snow

• Tlapa - powder snow
• Tlamo large wet flakes
• Kayi drifting snow
• Tliyel snow marked by wolves
• Tliyelin snow marked by Inuit
• Semtla partially melted snow

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Translation Process Not Psychology

• Received information
• Message decoded and transmitted in BSL

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Psychology Translation

• Received information psychology
• Decoded into English
• Translated into BSL internally
• Transmitted in BSL psychology externally
• Known as back translation

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• PSYCHOLOGY ENGLISH BSL BSL PSYCHOLOGY

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Stress
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Positives

• Learner focussed
• Learner fully involved in creating her video word
  list personal dictionary
• Tailored high level support
• Uniformity of sign
• Scope for further development
• Promotes independence and autonomy

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Learner Journey

• Initial assessment
• Teaching and learning
• Independent study
• Can be reviewed and amended
• Personal study aid

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Any Questions?